Supreme court

About: Supreme court is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41858 publications have been published within this topic receiving 306787 citations. The topic is also known as: court of last resort & highest court of appeal.

Cultures of legality : judicialization and political activism in Latin America

Abstract: Part I. Introduction: 1. Cultures of legality: judicialization and political activism in contemporary Latin America Alexandra Huneeus, Javier Couso and Rachel Sieder Part II. Courts and Judicialization through a Cultural Lens: 2. Legal language and social change during Colombia's economic crisis Pablo Rueda 3. How courts work: culture, institutions, and the Brazilian supreme tribunal federal Diana Kapiszewski 4. More power, more rights? The Supreme Court and society in Mexico Karina Ansolabehere 5. High courts and the inter-American court: judicialization, human rights and a tenuous relationship Alexandra Huneeus Part III. Judicialization beyond the Courts: 6. The transformation of constitutional discourse and the judicialization of politics in Latin America Javier Couso 7. Legal cultures in the (un)rule of law: indigenous rights and juridification in post-conflict Guatemala Rachel Sieder 8. Political activism and the practice of law in Venezuela Manuel A. Gomez 9. The Mapuche people's battle for land: litigation as a strategy to defend indigenous land rights Anne Skj'vestad 10. Judicialization in Argentina: legal culture, or opportunities and support structures? Catalina Smulovitz 11. Novel appropriations of the law in the pursuit of political and social change in Latin America Pilar Domingo.

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime - From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism

Abstract: Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents-Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon-to the Supreme Court justices-Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren-to the resisters-Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises

Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court

Abstract: List of tables and figures Preface 1. Precedent and the Court 2. Measuring precedential behavior 3. Precedential behavior from the beginning through the Chase Court 4. Precedential behavior bridging the 19th and 20th centuries 5. Precedential behavior in the Hughes, Stone, and Vinson courts 6. Precedential behavior in the Warren court 7. Precedential behavior in the Burger Court 8. Precedential behavior in the Rehnquist court 9. The Supreme court and state decisions 10. Conclusions List of references Case index Subject/name index.

Making Law in the United States Courts of Appeals

Abstract: 1. Lawmaking in a hierarchical judicial system 2. Theory and hypotheses 3. The cases 4. Influences on circuit judges' responses: case evidence 5. Influences on circuit judges' responses: interview evidence 6. Anticipating the Supreme Court 7. Implications and future directions.